- In this
original sense,
commonplace books were
collections of such sayings, such as John Milton's example. "
Commonplace book" is at
times used with an...
- Look up
commonplace in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Commonplace may
refer to:
Commonplace book Literary topos, the
concept in
rhetoric based on "commonplaces"...
- Pessoa's
astute melancholy. What is this
Livro do Des****ossego?
Neither '
commonplace book', nor 'sketchbook', nor 'florilegium' will do.
Imagine a
fusion of...
- that
included recipes, quotations, letters, poems, and more. Each
commonplace book was
unique to its creator's
particular interests.
Friendship albums...
-
Robert Burns's
Commonplace Book 1783–1785 is the
first of
three commonplace books that were
produced by the poet. The
contents cover drafts of
songs and...
-
Richard Hill's
Commonplace Book, or Oxford,
Balliol College MS 354, is a m****cript
collection of late-medieval
English poems and
other miscellaneous items...
- the
creator of a m****cript
commonplace book featuring the work of
women writers of her
circle and
compiler of a
printed book of
prose and poetry. Milcah...
- also used in the
tradition of the
commonplace book and note-taking. A well
known example is
Isaac Newton's
Waste Book in
which he did much of the development...
- A
zibaldone (plural zibaldoni) is an
Italian vernacular commonplace book or
notebook containing a wide
variety of
vernacular texts,
copied into a small...
- used this for a
brief synopsis of a new
story outlined in his own
Commonplace Book at
first in
August 1925,
which developed organically out of the idea...
